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Send us a textIn this episode of the Movement Series, the hosts delve into Chapter 3, 'Starting to Take Jesus at His Word,' exploring the cultural biases that hinder the church's mission. They discuss the distinction between the church's function and form, emphasizing the need for a minimalist approach to church leadership and structure. The conversation highlights the financial unsustainability of traditional church models and calls for a significant shift in thinking to foster genuine disciple-making movements.This chapter promises to really push us.Our common approach might be prioritizing the structure.The church is a movement of people, not an organization.A church is defined simply as a group of people.Jesus intended a different kind of leadership.Clergyfication creates a divide.It's easier to give birth than perform resurrection.The system is financially broken.A major shift in thinking is needed.What would it take to truly see a movement?

Send us a textIn this conversation, the hosts delve into Chapter 2 of Roy Moran's book, 'Spent Matches,' focusing on the Great Commission and its implications for modern discipleship. They explore the idea that the command to 'make disciples' is not just for a select few but for all believers, emphasizing the importance of living out one's faith in everyday life. The discussion highlights the need for a shift from traditional methods of evangelism to a more organic, relational approach to discipleship, where teaching obedience and public identification through baptism play crucial roles. The hosts also challenge the reliance on church structures and titles, advocating for a model where every believer is empowered to participate in the mission of making disciples.TakeawaysThe Great Commission is for all believers, not just leaders.Mission is embedded in everyday life, not a separate activity.Baptism serves as public identification with Jesus.Teaching obedience is essential for true discipleship.Replication of discipleship is key to growth.Success in ministry should be measured by multiplication, not addition.Dependency should be on God's power, not human leaders.Jesus commissioned imperfect people to fulfill His mission.Discipleship involves making learners who can teach others.Simplifying the process can lead to a more effective movement. Resources: Resource GuideListen in another Language !Coming Soon!

The conversation dives into the first chapter of 'Spent Matches', exploring the effectiveness of current church strategies in light of global trends. It confronts the brutal facts about church growth, challenges traditional assumptions about evangelism and discipleship, and emphasizes the need for a paradigm shift in leadership and ministry practices.TakeawaysThe church is becoming less effective despite growth.The Stockdale Paradox highlights the need to confront reality.Only 19 million converts a year globally is concerning.The financial sustainability of current methods is questionable.US evangelicalism is experiencing declines in key metrics.The focus should shift from form to function in ministry.Discipleship should emphasize obedience over knowledge.Leadership roles need to evolve into learning designers.The church should be seen as a community, not a building.Radical change often starts at the fringes, not the top.Resources: Resource GuideListen in another Language - !Coming Soon!

New GenerationsGet ConnectedPyry & Ani Winters support pagePyry and Ani Winter are Finns serving in Turku, on Finland's west coast. Recognizing future generations may not find God in the established church, they are focusing on disciple-making movements. These are intended to inspire believers to share Jesus within their social spheres and consistently live the Kingdom ethic.God has given Pyry and Ani a deep love for people, and crystalised their vision for making disciples who make disciples throughout Finland and to the whole of Europe. This led to the establishment of a robust Finnish disciple making network, including active teams in seven cities across the country. Everyday Finns are being trained to make disciples within their relational networks. The Winters provide coaching and training to leaders in Austria, Portugal, and Slovenia. God regularly provides new opportunities for further expansion of the ministry vision.

Another session with Harry Brown and the senior church leaders going through the DMM Playbook experience.Watch Interview Here: https://youtu.be/BVbPc9B8ZOU

Tom Marshall, a business guy, who has been in the disciple making world for 20 plus years share his simply strategy that he learned from the Gospels.Watch Interview Here: https://youtu.be/X1g9z4U-7xc

Mark Fields, long time Vineyard leader shares how he came to understand movements and the connection they have ot the local church.Watch interview here: https://youtu.be/qv8mlvUPyXM

Harry has been in the middle of New Generation's movement activity for 27 years.  He is President of New Generations.Watch the interview here: https://youtu.be/dTWghiMH9Hk

Harry Brown share why our current system of gospeling will never reach the Great Commission.  Harry is President of New Generations.  He and his wife Audrey served over 40 years at CityTeam in San Jose CA before CityTeam birthed New Generations to its own organization.View YouTube conversation here: https://youtu.be/UCf4gJllKY4

Ryan Kozey- PhD SUNY at Buffalo (2008); Post-Doctoral Fellowship SUNY at Buffalo (2009); MA Biblical Studies Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary (2016).Former Director of Strategic Initiatives- The Chapel at Crosspoint, Buffalo, NYCurrently, a research analyst serving the Church through SCP North America and Christ Together.Director of Global Connections- an International Student Ministry at Bowling Green State University.Saturation Church Planting WebsiteFacebookTwitterInstagramFollow Ryan on...:LinkedInTwitter

John Kenneth King is the Global Coach of Final Command Ministries (FCM). He is married to Debra (Hastings). They have two adult children and two grandchildren. John’s responsibilities are to develop training materials and to train, coach and mentor people who will catalyze Disciple Making Movements locally and globally. These efforts have taken him to Africa, Asia, Europe and numerous states in the U.S. and also Canada.John’s undergraduate and two graduate degrees were all in Biblical theology. Prior to joining the team at FCM, he served in pastoral roles for 31 years. He also serves as the Secretary of the FCM Board of Directors.Final Command

Matthew W. Bates (Ph.D., University of Notre Dame) is Associate Professor of Theology at Quincy University. His main teaching area is the Bible and early Christian literature. He also teaches courses in Western Religion, Church History, and Christian Spirituality. Dr. Bates is an award-winning author. His popular and influential books include Gospel Allegiance (Brazos, 2019), Salvation by Allegiance Alone (Baker Academic, 2017), and The Birth of the Trinity (Oxford University Press, 2015). Current book projects on salvation and christology are underway. Dr. Bates also co-hosts OnScript, a Bible and theology podcast. He enjoys family life, hiking, baseball, and good conversation. More info on Dr. Bates, his publications, and his availability for speaking can be found at MatthewWBates.com.

Stan is a CPM trainer and a coach for leaders of CPMs around the world. He is Co-Facilitator of the 24:14 Coalition which is focused on Kingdom Movement engagements in every Unreached People and place by 2025. He is the VP for Global Strategies with Beyond. Stan and his wife Kay have been serving Unreached People Groups since 1994 while based in Indonesia, Singapore and Dubai. Their 3 adult children grew up in Indonesia and Singapore. He has a BA in History, an M.Div, and Ph.D in Missiology.Beyond24:1424:14 – A Testimony to All Peoples, co-editor with Dave Coles (Book)

Cory has been a pastor and leader in the church for 15 years, and has been actively engaged in Disciple Making Movement ministry for the past 6 years. His mentors include catalysts from Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East, which led him to pursue ministry “on the margins.” In the last couple of years Cory has helped catalyze movement activity in the local county jails where they’ve see hundreds of inmates come to Jesus by empowering ‘insiders’ to gather others and discovery God together. His wife Suz, and 3 kids (Sam, Nate, Hannah) live in Kansas City, where they are actively engaged in many streams of coaching relationships working towards movement. He is part of the leadership of KC Underground, as well as on staff with Novo.Cory's WebsiteKC Underground

Kent Parks is President and CEO of Beyond. Kent and his wife Erika worked among Muslims in Asia for 20 years. They regularly lead church planting movement trainings around the world. He also equips people to better understand mission strategy, and biblical theology of missions.Previously, he served as a strategy coordinator focused on catalyzing Disciple-making Movements among unreached people groups (UPGs) in Southeast Asia. He continues to help facilitate various trans-national, trans-organizational networks focused on Unreached People Groups (UPGs), including serving as Co-Facilitator for Ethne, a global UPG network and as one of the leaders in the 2414 Initiative which is focused on launching “Book of Acts” movements in every unreached people and place.Kent pastored in Texas for seven years before going to the mission field. He has been a seminary professor and the academic dean of a seminary and has also taught internationally in graduate schools. He earned his B.A. in English and History from Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas as well as his M.Div. and Ph.D. from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. Kent and Erika have two adult daughters and a son-in-law who love and serve Jesus and are active in making disciples too.Beyond2414

The theme of Roy’s life can be described as “an addiction to creating Disciple Making Movements (DMM)”. In the past five years, he has traveled the world studying the great movements of the gospel in Indonesia, India, Africa, South America, and Europe. These travels have lead to the development of a Hybrid Strategy at Shoal Creek and the dedication to see movements of disciple-making in the US begin out of Kansas City.Show Notes: Spent Matches - Roy MoranSpontaneous Expansion of the Church - Roland AllenChurch Unique - Will Mancinihttps://disciplemakingmovements.comNewGenerations.orgNewGenerations.usMiraculous Movements - Jerry TrousdaleThe Kingdom Unleashed - Jerry Trousdale and Glen SunshineContagious Disciple-Making - David Watson

Justin Long is the Director of Global Research for Beyond. He has been involved in missions research for over 25 years.Justin's WebsiteFollow Justin on Twitter24:14

Chris Galanos is the Founding Pastor of Experience Life Church in Lubbock, TX, which is now a network of many churches meeting across the nation. He graduated from Southwestern Seminary in 2006 and then started Experience Life in his living room in the Spring of 2007. In the first 10 years of Experience Life’s history, God allowed the church to help over 13,000 people commit their lives to Christ & baptize over 7,000 people. Toward the end of the first 10 years, the Lord began to give Chris & the eLife Leadership Team the vision of seeing 1,000,000 disciples made in the next 10 years. They knew that their strategy for making disciples would have to change. The story of Experience Life’s transition from a “megachurch” model to a “multiplication” model is detailed in his new book, From Megachurch to Multiplication. In the last few years, he and his team have started over 25 churches in 12 states, launched over 200+ Discovery Groups with streams down to the 2nd and even 4th generation, and trained over 700 disciple-makers & church planters across the country (even several in other countries). He spends a majority of his time training and coaching pastors across the nation that feel the Lord leading them in a similar direction as Experience Life along with helping give oversight to all the churches in the Experience Life network. He has been married to his wife, Emilie, for 15 years and he has 2 children, McKinley who is 13 and Charis who is 11.Show NotesMegachurch to Multiplication - Chris GalanosSpent Matches - Roy The Great Evangelical Recession - John Dickerson Miraculous Movements - Jerry TrousdaleKingdom Unleashed - Jerry TrousdaleFather Glorified - Patrick Robertson & David Watson

David Young serves as the senior minister for the North Boulevard Church in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. He has worked for churches in Missouri, Kansas, and Tennessee, taught New Testament at several universities, and traveled widely teaching and preaching. He is the former host of the New Day Television Program, a board member for the Renew Network, and the author of several books, including A New Day (NB Press), The Rhetoric of Jesus in the Gospel of Mark, (Fortress Press, co-authored with Michael Strickland), A Grand Illusion (Renew Publications), and King Jesus and the Beauty of Obedience-Based Discipleship (Zondervan). He holds multiple degrees in religion, including a Ph.D. in New Testament from Vanderbilt University. David and his wife Julie have two married children.Follow David on TwitterFollow David on FacebookDiscipleship - David Youngs WebsiteClick Here for Resources from North Boulevard Church of ChristJerry Trousdale - Miraculous MovementsJerry Trousdale - Kingdom UnleashedEd Stetzer - Viral ChurchesDavid Young - King Jesus and the Beauty of Obedience Based DiscipleshipScot McKnight - King Jesus GospelMake sure you follow New Generations North America onTwitterFacebookLinkedInInstagram

Harry is the President of New Generations and sits on the Board of Directors. Prior to founding New Generations, Harry was responsible for launching the church planting division for Cityteam International in 1996, re-envisioning the team around movements in 2005, and shepherding the vision, as the indigenous leaders catalyzed over 120 movements, encompassing 50k new churches and over 1.5 million new disciples in the next twelve years. After such exponential growth, the Board of Cityteam voted to ‘set apart’ the church planting division as of July 2018 to become a separate organization called New Generations. Show Notes:New Generations - Newgenerations.orgDisciple-Making Movements.com - www.disciplemakingmovements.com2 Timothy 2:2 - "And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable people who will also be qualified to teach others."Donate to New Generations - https://newgenerations.org/donate/